After you have taken your virtual field trip and examined first-hand accounts about the Depression-era

Depression Era Experience, history homework help

After you have taken your virtual field trip and examined first-hand accounts about the Depression-era problems and people, write a summary (1200 words) of your own experiences and observations about the people and the programs you encountered, highlighting at least three of them. Include in your summary:

• What were the purposes or goals of these programs?
• What impact did these programs have on the people you met on the virtual field trip?

Following three programms:(LINKS)

• If you’d like to get in the proper thirties mood, begin with some music at Manufacturing Memory: American Popular Music in the 1930s http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG03/Jukebox/front.htm…
• Learn about what followed the crash and how it impacted people in towns and cities in the Great Plains. Farming in the 1930s: What Followed the Crash http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/m…
• Listen to someone who remembers the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and find out how workers were paid. Farming in the 1930s: WPA http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/m…

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Taking a virtual trip

Taking a virtual trip back to the 1930’s made me clearly understand how harsh the economic times back then were. It made me appreciate our current GDP and economy as a whole. At the same time, it enlightened me why programs such as Works Program Administration (WPA), Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) were formed….

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